Friedrich August Vitzthum von Eckstädt
Friedrich August Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt (born June 12, 1765 in Dresden , † March 5, 1803 ibid) was an electoral Saxon chamberlain and chief tax collector.
Life
He came from the line of the Thuringian noble family Vitzthum von Eckstädt , who was raised to the rank of count in 1711, and was the second son of Ludwig Siegfried Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1716–1777) and his second wife, Auguste Erdmuthe von Ponickau and Pilgram , who came from Ober-Oelsa (1738-1775). His younger brother was Heinrich Carl Wilhelm Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt . Together with his siblings, he grew up in the Saxon residence city of Dresden and, like many of his family members, embarked on an administrative career in the service of the Wettins , in which he rose to chamberlain and chief tax collector in the Electorate of Saxony .
After the death of his biological mother, his father married Amalia Sybilla Eleonora von Stammer (1749–1795) in 1776, who became his stepmother.
In 1786, when his uncle, Lieutenant General Johann Friedrich Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt died without children, he and his two brothers who were still alive inherited his estate at Tiefensee in the Bitterfeld office . In 1791 his brothers left the Tiefensee estate to him after he had paid them for it.
On 15./17. In February 1792 he sold his fiefdom and knightly estate, which was in the chancellery, together with the village of Lindenhayn and the Vorwerk Brösen to Caroline Wilhelmine von Einsiedel, born Winckler, the wife of Hans von Einsiedel on Schönfeld. In 1794 she sold this property on to the Leipzig merchant Christian Gottlob Hillig.
Furthermore, Friedrich August Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt was Majorate Lord on Lichtenwalde and Auerswalde and heir to Wölkau and Reibitz,
literature
- Rudolf Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt: Contributions to a Vitzthumschen family history . Ed .: Central Office for German Personal and Family History. Leipzig 1935.
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses, 1855, p. 1040.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Friedrich August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vitzthum Count von Eckstedt, Friedrich August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chamberlain of Electoral Saxony and chief tax collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1803 |
| Place of death | Dresden |